September 2011 Grocery Challenge

meanmarie

Spent another €3.99 to-day....on 2.5kg of potatoes, OH would go mad as we get 10kg for same price, but would have meant half an hour drive so figured would take the hit for once!

Leaves me with €6.37 per day until end of month.

Marie

MILLYMOLLY

Spent £141.26 already need to start menu planning and stop buying 'bargains' lol

pennywisepoundstupid

Well i've ended up in Tesco's twice today:o, nipped in on way to work this morning to get a birthday present for DS friend got some of the hartley jellies and also checked out the baking section to see if anything was on offer, Tesco's own choc chip muffin kits were reduced to 32p so got some of those and some fruit, so spent £3.54, not including the present as it comes out of a different budget.

Popped in on my way home from work as the glitch for the jelly worked so got a load more and more boxes of muffin mixes, also had the offer on the blackcurrant frootz so got the kids some of those and got hubby some bits he needed for work, so another £9.75 spent.

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Fed up and grumpy today due to lack of sleep

At least it was another NSD

I posted this on daily OS thread, but thought i,d chuck it in here to, as I know you lots are fab at advice.....:A


Hi all

Hope you,ve had a good day.

Another NSD today - wooo-hoooo

OH is cooking dinner tonight - HM chicken Kiev, one of his 'signature dishes' LOL

I feel drained today - I just can,t sleep at the mo - want to get into bed now, but was welcomed home from work by a bombsite of a kitchen (kids were hungry after school) and 'mount washing' seems to of appeared from nowere

I need to come up with a meal plan for my non-meat eating parents who are visiting in a couple of weeks from Canada was thinking:-

Creamy fish curry
Mushroom Stoganoff
Filo veg parcels
Traditional fish and chips
Veg quiche new pots etc
Seafood medley - prawns, crab, squid, fish gougons, dips, salad, HM bread etc

Any non- meat eaters out there give any opinions/alternatives i,d be grateful

Ta muchley, off to have a read now xx

WelshWoofer

Island maid - I'm a veggie and often make the following because they're cheap, nutritious and tasty and can done in advance in 1 pot more or less...

Chick pea and veg curry
5 bean chilli
Cheese and potato pie/bake
thick hearty veg soup (leek and potato?) with crusty bread

Just some ideas?

Chloris

Islandmaid - spinach and mushroom lasagna, hm pizza, veg chilli, green lentil shepherdless pie. HTH

Islandmaid

Thanks peeps x - am writing them down, would be good to be able to pre-cook and freeze some bits before hand

rosieben

IM you might some more ideas on zippychick's fab Complete Vegetarian Collection

poppy-glos

Puzzledbubbles wrote: »

The only recipie i know for whole cookers (which happens to be one of my fav's) is to simpply bake them in the oven,

If you can face peeling some and making a tart this is the recipe i use which always goes down well.

Apple, Lemon and Honey Tart

thanks, we love baked apples but not at four carrier bags full at a time. Last night did a whole pan of stewed apple and thats now in freezer in portions. May do some more tonight but am also coping (happily) with a huge glut of pears which i do the (google) cottage smallholder belgium pears' with, and am doing 4kg an evening til i have done them all...

mrs-moneypenny

bought cheese and bananas today spent £2.44